This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Crosscut
2-2-18
It is 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis.
Source: Vox
2/1/18
“I can’t think of a single time any president has done anything like this.”
Source: ABC News
1-31-18
The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to install a statue of educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the spot where a statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith still stands.
Source: Political Wire
2-1-18
The president’s claim is not backed up by Nielsen’s numbers, which show Barack Obama at 48 million viewers in 2010, George W. Bush at 51.7 million in 202 and Bill Clinton at 45.8 million in 1994.
Source: The Washington Post
1-10-18
It’s where the GOP members of Congress were heading when their train crashed into a truck.
Source: Time Magazine
1-31-18
The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military
Source: the way of improvement leads home
1/31/18
by John Fea
Young people believe that Americans are more divided over politics than race or religion.
Source: NYT
1-30-18
A century ago, the war to end war came to an end. At the same time, Russia endured a vicious civil war, and the flu killed more people than all the battlefields of World War I.
Source: The Washington Post
1-28-18
Leaving mementos at the Wall has been a tradition since the polished stone memorial bearing the names of the 58,000 Vietnam War dead was dedicated in 1982.
Source: The Washington Post
1-29-18
In Benin, where the government plans to build two museums devoted to the slave trade in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, slavery is an embattled subject.
Source: Iowa State Daily
1-29-18
It wasn’t intended to be partisan.
Source: NYT
1-29-18
It took two eagle-eyed historians to track down the plane that led hundreds of Allied aircraft into Normandy during World War II.
Source: Bloomberg
1-29-18
History, demographics and the national mood are pointing to one conclusion about the 2018 congressional races: Democrats are well-positioned to bring one-party government in Washington under Donald Trump’s presidency to a screeching halt.
Source: Newsweek
1-28-18
Speaking on the official government podcast, Angela Merkel stressed the importance of highlighting intolerance because of a recent rise in anti-Jewish and other hate crimes.
Source: National Post
1-26-18
How repulsive was Lyndon B. Johnson? Contact with him put one at risk of encountering a profane spectacle of burping, farting and crotch-scratching.
Source: The Washington Post
1-28-18
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Source: CBS News
1-27-18
A simple meeting in a Naples synagogue was more than 70-years in the making.
Source: NYT
1-28-18
The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity.
Source: The Washington Post
1-26-18
Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book.
Source: Fox News
1-25-18
An amateur historian says he's discovered a lengthy stretch of the original Berlin Wall in a wooded area of the German capital.
